Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jamie L. Jo

Description: Rendered Obsolete by Jamie L. Jones Analysing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industrys legacy. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oils popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations.Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industrys legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale. Author Biography Jamie L. Jones is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Details ISBN1469674823 Author Jamie L. Jones Publisher The University of North Carolina Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781469674827 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-08-29 Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Subtitle Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States Illustrations 15 halftones AU Release Date 2023-08-29 NZ Release Date 2023-08-29 US Release Date 2023-08-29 UK Release Date 2023-08-29 DEWEY 338.372950973 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 262 ISBN-10 1469674823 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143599973;

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